Take action on climate in Colorado!

Stop by here anytime for a list of upcoming key action opportunities, including; tabling, public comment sessions, testifying at hearings, and growing the climate movement. One of the most important things you can do is to make your voice heard. Please speak up for strong climate leadership!

*Please visit our online calendar for details on all of our events this month, including monthly committee meetings, additional events hosted by 350 Colorado, and upcoming trainings. 

–> In-Person Events:

Saturday 9/14 – Sunday 9/15 – Create a larger movement of activists in Boulder and beyond! 

1. Join us and the Boulder County local team in Boulder, CO on Saturday 9/14 and/or Sunday 9/15, tabling at the Streetwise Mural Festival!
2. Two shift options each day; AM shift from 11:30am-2:30pm or PM shift from 2:30pm-5:30pm.
3. This is an outdoor event with some weather protection (tent to be under). Sign up here for a shift and we’ll be in touch with more information!

Saturday 9/28 – come together and connect for the Greeley Clean Air Community Event!

1. Join us in Greeley, CO at East Memorial Park on Saturday 9/28 from 12-2pm for music, free food, giveaways, and family-friendly activities like face-painting! We’ll be sharing resources about pollution, air quality, health impacts, and how community members can help clean up our air.
2. This is an outdoor event. RSVP here to be automatically entered to win one of the cool giveaways!

–> Upcoming Hearings & Public Comment Opportunities: 

Check back for opportunities soon!

–> Ongoing Hybrid Opportunities:

1. Become a ZIP (“Zoning Interpersonal Power”) Leader for your community.

As a ZIP Leader, you’ll be a part of Colorado’s largest grassroots movement dedicated to solving the climate crisis! The overall objective is not for you to solve the climate crisis alone, but for you to build & empower a community working toward climate solutions!

Anticipated tasks involved: 

• Communicate actions, events, and opportunities relevant to the zip code to other activists in the area
• Organize and/or participate in events and actions within the zip code to connect activists
• Communicate events, actions, or needs in the zip code to 350CO teammates as needed
• Cultivate relationships with activists, community leaders representatives, and policymakers in the zip code
• Recruitment of activists within the zip code

For more information, check out the position description.

If you’re ready to get started, fill out the ZIP Leader Interest Form and we’ll be in contact soon!

–> Online Actions:

1. Write a Letter to the Editor (LTE) or OpEd about the fact that many oil and gas wells do not generate enough money to plug their wells.
   

From the Colorado Sun: “Profitable oil and gas production in Colorado is increasingly concentrated in a few basins leaving the rest of the operations with few resources  and posing risk to getting all 47,000 of the state’s active wells plugged and remediated, according to a report from Carbon Tracker.

At least 27,000 wells — more than half the state tally — don’t generate enough cash to pay for their eventual plugging and site remediation, the report by the nonprofit think tank focused on climate and finance.”

This leaves taxpayers holding the bag for oil and gas well cleanup. Not to mention the pollution and habitat destruction created by these wells!

Everything you need: 

• Your step-by-step guide on writing LTEs and OpEd are here.
• More info – Read an article about this here

More online actions to take

1. The Safe & Healthy Colorado coalition has introduced a Statewide Ballot Initiative to Phase Out All New Fracking Permits by 2030!  Complete your Pledge to Sign the ballot initiative here and check out 18 Ways You Can Help Bring the Fracking Phase Out to voters!
2. Sign the petition to Agriculture Secretary Vilsack demanding that he cancel the Uinta Basin Railway.
3. Watch and share this video on social media to learn how oil and gas fracking is fueling the flames for more intense wildfires in Colorado
4. Support Nuclear-Free Pueblo from anywhere!
5. Sign this petition by GreenLatinos asking Weld County to stop line 1 and put community health and safety over a pipeline expansion project
6. We are excited to announce a new toolkit completed in partnership with Boulder County, titled From Dollars to Decarbonization: A Local Government Blueprint for Fossil Free Finance. This toolkit is a resource for local governments to decarbonize their finances in four key areas: Pensions, Insurance, Banking, and Fossil Fuel Divestment. We’re looking for constituents to reach out to their city and county governments to share this toolkit, and to support their governments in taking the steps outlined in this toolkit. We’re happy to give presentations and offer consultation to governments that are interested in taking these steps!
7.  Sign the Fossil Free CU Petition Here and the Divest CSU Petition here to support local university divestment work! New to divestment & defunding climate disaster? Learn more about how critical divestment work is in the context of the climate crisis.